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16-letter words containing a, c, t, i, n

  • carrot and stick — If an organization has a carrot and stick approach or policy, they offer people things in order to persuade them to do something and punish them if they refuse to do it.
  • carry conviction — to be convincing
  • case insensitive — case sensitivity
  • case sensitivity — (text)   Whether a text matching operation distinguishes upper-case (capital) letters from lower case (is "case sensitive") or not ("case insensitive"). Case in file names should be preserved (for readability) but ignored when matching (so the user doesn't have to get it right). MS-DOS does not preserve case in file names, Unix preserves case and matches are case sensitive. Any decent text editor will allow the user to specify whether or not text searches should be case sensitive. Case sensitivity is also relevant in programming (most programming languages distiguish between case in the names of identifiers), and addressing (Internet domain names are case insensitive but RFC 822 local mailbox names are case sensitive). Case insensitive operations are sometimes said to "fold case", from the idea of folding the character code table so that upper and lower case letters coincide. The alternative "smash case" is more likely to be used by someone who considers this behaviour a misfeature or in cases where one case is actually permanently converted to the other. "MS-DOS will automatically smash case in the names of all the files you create".
  • cash transaction — a piece of business, for example an act of buying or selling something
  • casting director — the person in charge of choosing of actors for a production
  • castor-oil plant — a tall euphorbiaceous Indian plant, Ricinus communis, cultivated in tropical regions for ornament and for its poisonous seeds, from which castor oil is extracted
  • cataractogenesis — The formation of a cataract.
  • catch sb napping — If someone is caught napping, something happens when they are not prepared for it, although they should have been.
  • catchwater drain — a channel cut along the edge of high ground to catch surface water from it and divert it away from low-lying ground
  • category listing — A category listing is a list of different product categories such as menswear, womenswear, and childrenswear.
  • catering college — a further education college where you learn to cook as a profession
  • catering manager — the person in charge of the catering in a place or at an event
  • catherine howard — Catherine, c1520–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII.
  • cavity resonator — a conducting surface enclosing a space in which an oscillating electromagnetic field can be maintained, the dimensions of the cavity determining the resonant frequency of the oscillations. It is used in microwave devices for frequencies exceeding 300 megahertz
  • cedar revolution — the popular protests in 2005 that brought down the Lebanese cabinet and prompted Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon
  • centennial state — Colorado (used as a nickname).
  • central american — of or relating to Central America or its inhabitants
  • central cylinder — stele (def 4).
  • centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
  • cesarean section — Also called Cesarean section, C-section. an operation by which a fetus is taken from the uterus by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus.
  • character string — a series of characters that can be manipulated as a group, but do not necessarily represent anything
  • characterisation — (British spelling) Alternative form of characterization.
  • characterization — Characterization is the way an author or an actor describes or shows what a character is like.
  • chattering class — well-educated members of the upper-middle or upper class who freely express especially liberal opinions or judgments on current issues and events.
  • chauvinistically — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
  • checking account — A checking account is a personal bank account which you can take money out of at any time using your cheque book or cash card.
  • chemical element — chemistry: substance
  • chequing account — (in Canada) account against which cheques can be drawn
  • chian turpentine — turpentine (def 2).
  • chief technician — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior to a flight sergeant
  • childcare center — a place or business offering childcare for working parents
  • chinese wisteria — a high-climbing Chinese vine, Wisteria sinensis, of the legume family, having hanging clusters of fragrant, bluish-violet flowers and long, velvety pods.
  • chlorinated lime — bleaching powder.
  • cholera infantum — an often fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in infants, not of the same cause as cholera but having somewhat similar characteristics.
  • chorioamnionitis — Inflammation of the fetal membranes (amnion and chorion) due to a bacterial infection, most often associated with prolonged labour.
  • christian action — an inter-Church movement formed in 1946 to promote Christian ideals in society at large
  • christmas dinner — the main meal on Christmas day, eaten any time in the afternoon or evening
  • christmas island — an island in the Indian Ocean, south of Java: administered by Singapore (1900–58), now by Australia; phosphate mining. Pop: 1496 (2013 est). Area: 135 sq km (52 sq miles)
  • chromatic number — (mathematics)   The smallest number of colours necessary to colour the nodes of a graph so that no two adjacent nodes have the same colour. See also: four colour map theorem.
  • chromium plating — plating, often for decorative effect, made of chromium
  • chryselephantine — (of ancient Greek statues) made of or overlaid with gold and ivory
  • cinnamyl acetate — a colorless liquid, C 11 H 12 O 2 , having a piquant, flowerlike odor: used as a fixative in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • circuit analyzer — multimeter.
  • circuit training — Circuit training is a type of physical training in which you do a series of different exercises, each for a few minutes.
  • circumambulating — Present participle of circumambulate.
  • circumambulation — The act of walking around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.
  • circumlocutional — Of or relating to circumlocution : circumlocutionary.
  • circumnavigating — Present participle of circumnavigate.
  • circumnavigation — to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation: to circumnavigate the earth.
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